There are USB based devices which might be what is needed some just attach to a normal pad others have a digitising surface. There are Linux drivers for some so android support isn't impossible. Some formats are just svg graphics coupled with handwriting recognition.
Maybe the question isn't how do I write on the screen but how do I capture my writing?
People still haven't gotten used to the idea that a tablet can be a host device.
If insurance companies owned pharma companies. You might find a particular drug is only available to people on that insurance companies plans or maybe available at an inflated price.
Insurance companies are not in the business of helping anyone. Every claim is a loss to them. You would need a non-profit company or state funded pharma, not impossible in some parts of the world but maybe illegal if the recent story where the NSA might be in trouble for developing their own software is illegal, then it's highly likely that there is similar provisions for the development of drugs.
That is a cynical idea, ok drug companies might prefer long term treatments to cures. But for insurance companies and nationalised health care systems cost is more important.
luckily the FDA can only rule on drugs for Americans in the USA. In Ireland I got prescribed a drug treatment here that was approved eventually by the FDA. I'm very happy for it being available to me sooner rather than later, and i am sure Americans are now seeing the benefits now they can have it too.
Hardness and toughness are pretty much opposites. when a crystal deforms it does so along slip plains and the harder something is the less available slip plans are available for the material to deform which is why diamonds are used in hardness testing (the softer the material the bigger impression the diamond makes on the material (google vickers hardness test) .
From wikipedia In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing;[1] Material toughness is defined as the amount of energy per volume that a material can absorb before rupturing. It is also defined as the resistance to fracture of a material when stressed.
So as a Diamond is hard due to lack of available slip plains its toughness is lowered due to its inability to deform. Therefore it is unlikely that this new material will be tough. (that says nothing about tensile strength just it's ability to deal with a sharp blow).
I don't care about grammar points at 8 am on a friday morning, communication is the point of language not syntax errors. the interpreter is flexible enough to cope:P
However I am curious as how you got such a relatively low user id, did you sign up to slashdot when you were 10?
comfort maybe? The larger the breasts, the heavier they are and the more support is needed.
Your comment reveals your still a youth as more senior slashdotters are well aware of the long term effects of gravity on the female breast, they are not so perky any more.
but anyway bra's make a woman look more attractive , especially the ones where you get the opportunity to remove the bra.
Maybe an iomega iconnect no display but you can boot from a usb stick quite simply and run debian. It is much better than the original firmware. I was surprised to find it installed gimp when i was installing sane (for a hp multifunction which was only supported for printing by iomega's firmware) so i tried it gimp2.8 on a nas:) minidlna is much more reliable than the twonky media server that comes on the std firmware. there is 256mb of ram costs about euro 50 and uses about 5 watts. there is a kernel with support for usb audio and more usb ports.
My latest Monitor is also a TV. It's pretty much the same as my last monitor with the difference that it has Hdmi instead of DVI as well as the usual svga, Scart and others the sound output is 5.1 and there is a built in dvd player which will read mp3 and divX and a usb port too.
So basically i can use it with my tablet my netbook or other device that requires a reasonably high def screen.
My Desktop systems have largely gathered dust for the last 3 years, they are power hungry and not worth the cost of keeping powered up. My Nas has taken over the job of bulk storage a single 2tb drive is enough most of the time. There are other drives but its been a long time since they got powered up too. A single DVD burner using USB takes care of any disk needs, thou a usb stick tends to replace the pile of DVD's and CD's i used to burn once and use once.
The Tablet is getting more useful but there are short comings that are hard to address. It can't print directly to my nas which is also my print server it needs to use my netbook as a gateway to the android cloud printing service. Skype is awful on android it is difficult to be say using a web browser and skype at the same time. its much better integrated on Linux or windows or...
There is plenty of need for a pc in my life but not that much need for a desktop. I used to run myth-boxes but my satellite boxes record to hdd the files are transferable and transcodable and in sync. I can't series link but that only worked for me in the uk on digital terrestrial tv anyway and in ireland the Tv channels suck.
So now i am a low power (watts) computer user and it makes more sense that way. There are only small niggles that need resolving like my multifunction printer scanner cant scan connected to my nas so i have to plug it in to my netbook. maybe i need to return to service my old EEE701 and use that instead of my nas.
The cheapest robot is the human being, and if you ever worked on a factory floor you would know that is usually true. A shift doing one simple action over and over again to the pace of a machine.
To give one simple example a flow wrap machine for a crisp/chip factory doing a multipack. The production process is already automated as much as possible. A bulk loader trailer (a lorry trailer with a conveyor in the bottom of it feeds potato's into a flume the PLC turns the conveyor on and off as required controlling the flow of potato's into the system. the flume takes the potato's to a 3 stage peeler which are abrasive rollers with progressively finer rolls. next the grader halver which just passes through potato's of an appropriate size or cuts them down in size. the next stage is a number of spinning drums with razor blades which cut the chips/crisps followed by a bath to remove starch and into a fryer. On exiting the chips/crisps are run down a belt and made to jump onto a second one above this are camera's and a series of air jets the cameras are looking for burnt bits when they spot a burnt crisp the air jet blasts the burnt chip down between the 2 belts onto a cross belt and then feeds back to the first belt since the airjet will take some good chips of as well as the burn't ones so the waste is kept down. So far two people have jobs largely changing the blades on the chipper and monitoring the oven. producing about 7500kg of chips an hour.
the next stage is to flavour stations and packing which is fed by a series of vibrating conveyors (which are stainless steel troughs not belts). At a flavour station flavouring is added and a multi-head weigher collects the chips into bins and that calculates the weights needed to get your 25g bag eg two bins have 8g and 17g so these are opened together the packets are a sheet of plastic foil which is folded and seamed and crimped and cut. the top of one bag becomes the base of the next bag and when the chips are dropped the bag isn't made until part way through the fall.
The sealed packet then hits another conveyor which weighs the bags to check they are in specification and rejects the ones that are not (very few in practice) then either onto a rotating table where the human puts 48 in a box. or to the robot which unfolds the carton tapes it lines up 8 bags picks them up puts them in making 6 layers and seals it (if it only picks up 7 it rejects them which can be a big problem) and then the human stacks the cartons. That packing robot is an expensive piece of kit costing roughly 10 years worth of wages of a human packer, but can run 24/7 usually 24/5.
Back to multipacks a flow wrap machine has a sectioned belt so flavour A goes in 1 flavour B in 2 and flavour C in the third. the multipack is essentially a large packet with a simpler machine feeding it. it's old technology really (you can do a similar process to making the actual bags with a bigger multihead weigher) , but to feed that machine you have a bunch of operators who just put bags into the sections pick up drop pick up drop repeat for 8 hours 5 days a week pretty mind numbing soul destroying work but it's a job. You actually automate yourself to do it, more muscle memory than thought, pacing the machine. they do at least move stations every 15 minutes but you pretty much know how many laps you do before each break and per shift.
Thing is there are a lot of jobs like this just as soul destroying so the guy processing 5 images a second is his job any worse than this type of repetitive pick up and drop job?
The camera system on the crisp line essentially identifies black pixels and uses that to determine when product is burnt, a steam peeler (super heated steam blasts new potato's for about 30 seconds) uses a similar camera system to identify potato's with skin still attached. again its dark where it should be light. Systems maybe are better at recognising features these days but it always will be hard, maybe detecting a human detecting a feature is easier, does it have to be h
Is it necessary to price match exactly? Maybe if they could be say $30 dearer it would be worth the premium of being able to buy right now. There is a value in being able to buy now and also be able to bring something back if it develops a fault.
The bit-torrent client I use you can just type what you want and it searches and usually finds a selection of torrents related to the search terms.
Your probably right about the trailers point really was that torrents have a tarnished reputation and the use of bit-torrent is probably dismissed where it could be a viable option. I guess one use might be android updates one of my tablets gets frequent updated rom images and typically the server holding them gets hammered for a few days often failing to complete the download. With bit torrent the file availability scales with demand but there must be good reason why they prefer customers grumbling than make available via torrent.
Really if Bit-torrent has a reputation of use by people pirating content then legal users fear being tarred with the same brush.
Or how about a simple example say photoshop has a 200 MB patch it wants to distribute they could use bit torrent. However the user who wants the photoshop patch types in photoshop and finds photoshop with all bells and whistles available to download as well as the 200MB patch they were looking for. Any search on pirate bay for example will return legal torrents and illegal torrents as there is no difference as far as the search engine is concerned.
You might choose to distribute a film trailer by bit-torrent but instead of just links for the trailer links to the whole film are returned as well so while distributing the trailer by bit-torrent would be cheaper for the film company at the same time they would be making it easy to get the whole film too. This may eat in to sales or turn the film into a blockbuster depending on how good the film is, kind of an issue that people will not pay to see lousy films if they know they are lousy.
hmm same day that microsoft announced an android botnet no less. Guess it means if you want to be secure with your mobile phone you need to be using windows mobile 7... or 8 or something.
Or perhaps it's time to dump on the two main mobile o's in an effort to market windows phone.
The problem for publishers is if the old stuff is public domain and accessible, then it's going to hit sales of new stuff.
The real scary thing for publishers it only takes one out of copyright copy to make it to the public domain and it can be reproduced for ever.
unfortunately for the rest of us, realistically there isn't going to be much that we will want to view in our lifetime's but we should still try to protect the public domain for our descendants.
That was in the UK, Sheffield to be precise. It was the Policeman who I fetched (after spotting my guitar on the back wall and gave a very detailed description back in the station) who told me that while the 2nd hand shop couldn't sell my guitar to anyone since it had been stolen, he wasn't forced to give me it back yet. A judge could make him but I would have had to file and wait.
Basically he would be ordered to give it back eventually but in the meantime I would have had to wait he just wanted to get back the money he paid for the guitar or some of it anyway from me!
It would have been a civil case in the small claims as it was it didn't go forward as he was inspired to give the police a call when one of the two people who brought in the guitar came in with someone else and in the end all 3 were arrested and tried for a string of burglaries of which mine was just a taken into consideration. I did get a couple more things back recovered from the house where the three men were staying.
I had my suspicions who might have broke in to my house and they were totally unfounded. That was probably the best lesson learned for me, it was just random strangers.
That and if you get robbed of something hard to sell on, it is always worth checking out the local 2nd hand shops.
Actually been in a situation where a guitar of mine was stolen in a burglary. I spotted my guitar in a second hand shop and was able to prove it was mine.
But then hit a snag, the owner of the shop was able to say he bought the guitar in good faith, thus to get my guitar back i could compensate him by paying him for my own guitar or go to court and eventually get a judge to order him to return it to me. He wasn't allowed to sell it in the mean time so my stubbornness refusing to pay for my own guitar meant we both were out of pocket for a while.
In the end the same people who sold him the guitar tried to sell him something else at which time he called the police and they were arrested some stolen property was recovered and the shop keeper gave me my guitar back with the hope of getting some compensation from the court for catching the thieves.
I have to wonder if things would have played the way they did if I had caved and paid to get my guitar back.
The end user cares when they have to do the same thing more than once repeatedly, only an idiot would want to be doing the work of the computer and GUI's more often than not will be making the user open and close files select from dialogues, confirm and all other manner of user interaction which isn't needed if you can just set up a little batch program to say process this like this.
It's a judgement call of course, figuring out how to get the computer to do what you want will take somebody's time. Maybe it's beyond the capabilities of the person doing the task and someone with some real skill is needed to actually formulate the quicker method.
In a work situation there should be someone who can write the script or the command needed so the office grunt can get the task done and do something more useful in the time saved. Admittedly you could be on dangerous ground giving an end user who can barely use the computer access to the command line but perhaps they should be better trained and educated or replaced by someone with the skill to do the job efficiently.
As a counter point don't force users to use a Gui when it's easier to do with a CLI.
GUI's tend to suck really badly at what I term donkey work basically any task where you are having to do the same task repeatedly usually across multiple files. Computers are great at donkey work but how often are you left wishing you could just set the task up and have it just do it!
Purely CLI methods can be tricky too, so sometimes it is helpful to use a GUI to setup parameters (if that GUI exists) really good GUI's which are just a front end to command line tools will even give you the command that it generated based on the options you chose enabling you to combine that combination into a simple script.
Even GUI programs can make use of the command line spitting out error messages while the GUI seems perfectly normal.
CLI or GUI or a bit of both there are strengths and weaknesses to these approaches to a task. no matter how much you like GUI's there are any number of tasks which can be done in 5 minutes by CLI or 5 hours doing the same thing with a GUI right tool for the job in hand is always best
I get the impression Metformin is more of a block slowing up sugar uptake which reduces the amount of insulin needed to cope with the sugars and carbs.
I take a more interesting drug which stimulates a hormone which makes my body produce more insulin when it is needed. (byetta) I've been on a new version for the last few months which is a time release version (may still not be available in the USA yet) this is a once a week injection as opposed to twice a day and also doesn't cause any nausea. I think the nausea tends to be associated with rapid adjustment of blood sugar levels and spikes.
The weekly injection seems to control the blood sugar much closer to the ideal levels and also both forms help protect the insulin producing cells keeping them from dying off. Metformin doesn't stop this so a type 2 diabetic eventually becomes a type 1 as insulin is no longer produced naturally and insulin injections become necessary.
Insulin injections seem to be largely guess work trying to inject an appropriate amount of insulin and can be easy to get wrong, insulin injections also tend to be associated with weight gain probably since more sugar is usable by the body. I've not had any personal use of Insulin injections so I am just repeating hearsay.
With byetta and byduron, the main side effect seems to be belching and farting my conjecture is that since the drug causes a slowing of the digestive system gut bacteria get to work on your food producing gas as a side effect. To be honest this is a result of over eating and if your sensible with what you eat it doesn't happen. It kind of feels like the effect you get after drinking 2 litres of fizzy water. Your stomach balloons up and the slightest movement will cause you to belch Initially I had intense stomach pain a couple of days after starting the weekly injection. This was due to over eating. I soon adjusted my food intake and havent had another episode. Now I have good sugar levels and am losing weight steadily.
Ideally I would be better off 50 pounds lighter but I have made slow but steady progress just by eating less, I am rarely all that hungry.
I should have died 3 years ago but for the treatments that now exist to treat heart attacks so it is all bonus to me. I have pretty good health these days all things considered but would I be posting this today if I was an American?
Ireland doesn't have a population of hundreds of millions... 2011 total voting age 3,516,795 of a population of 4,670,976 registered 3,202,442 voted 2,243,176 turn out about 70% who were registered or 63% of voting age spoilt ballots 1%
Most area's elect 3 or 4 tds and the votes are carried out in rounds so who ever comes last in first preference votes gets their votes split according to 2nd preference and so on until there are just enough candidates left to fill the seats as a rough figure less than 13,000 votes are needed to be elected a TD with 176 TD's to be elected.
In theory most people will have voted a TD into office even if it wasn't their first choice. It has the advantage that two people with differing political views in the same area will have a representative that they supported to some extent elected.
Games maybe but movies on a phone, seriously? Youtube clips are one thing but why would any one want to spend 90 minutes+ watching a movie on a tiny screen with a race between the film completing and the battery dying?
I guess you might use a phone as a replacement for the kids in car dvd player but you are seriously risking vomiting in the back seats. I loved to read as a kid but focusing on a paperback while travelling would make me queasy.
Games are a different matter as they fill "waiting time".
One thing which would be an improvement on current phones would be an e-ink or similar screen on phones as a secondary screen. Because none of the current screens are much good outside in sunlight. Maybe its time for the flip screen style phone to make a come back.
Seriously A facebook email address says one thing about you , you use facebook. So when your boss see's it and sticks in a friend request how do you tactfully say never in a million years.
There has to be a good number of people that you don't really want accessing your facebook page for one reason or another at least you can deny being on facebook if your privacy settings are set secure enough.
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There are USB based devices which might be what is needed some just attach to a normal pad others have a digitising surface.
There are Linux drivers for some so android support isn't impossible. Some formats are just svg graphics coupled with handwriting recognition.
Maybe the question isn't how do I write on the screen but how do I capture my writing?
People still haven't gotten used to the idea that a tablet can be a host device.
If insurance companies owned pharma companies. You might find a particular drug is only available to people on that insurance companies plans or maybe available at an inflated price.
Insurance companies are not in the business of helping anyone. Every claim is a loss to them. You would need a non-profit company or state funded pharma, not impossible in some parts of the world but maybe illegal if the recent story where the NSA might be in trouble for developing their own software is illegal, then it's highly likely that there is similar provisions for the development of drugs.
That is a cynical idea, ok drug companies might prefer long term treatments to cures. But for insurance companies and nationalised health care systems cost is more important.
luckily the FDA can only rule on drugs for Americans in the USA. In Ireland I got prescribed a drug treatment here that was approved eventually by the FDA. I'm very happy for it being available to me sooner rather than later, and i am sure Americans are now seeing the benefits now they can have it too.
Hardness and toughness are pretty much opposites. when a crystal deforms it does so along slip plains and the harder something is the less available slip plans are available for the material to deform which is why diamonds are used in hardness testing (the softer the material the bigger impression the diamond makes on the material (google vickers hardness test) .
From wikipedia
In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing;[1] Material toughness is defined as the amount of energy per volume that a material can absorb before rupturing. It is also defined as the resistance to fracture of a material when stressed.
So as a Diamond is hard due to lack of available slip plains its toughness is lowered due to its inability to deform. Therefore it is unlikely that this new material will be tough. (that says nothing about tensile strength just it's ability to deal with a sharp blow).
I don't care about grammar points at 8 am on a friday morning, communication is the point of language not syntax errors. the interpreter is flexible enough to cope :P
However I am curious as how you got such a relatively low user id, did you sign up to slashdot when you were 10?
comfort maybe? The larger the breasts, the heavier they are and the more support is needed.
Your comment reveals your still a youth as more senior slashdotters are well aware of the long term effects of gravity on the female breast, they are not so perky any more.
but anyway bra's make a woman look more attractive , especially the ones where you get the opportunity to remove the bra.
Maybe an iomega iconnect no display but you can boot from a usb stick quite simply and run debian. :) minidlna is much more reliable than the twonky media server that comes on the std firmware. there is 256mb of ram costs about euro 50 and uses about 5 watts. there is a kernel with support for usb audio and more usb ports.
It is much better than the original firmware. I was surprised to find it installed gimp when i was installing sane (for a hp multifunction which was only supported for printing by iomega's firmware) so i tried it gimp2.8 on a nas
My latest Monitor is also a TV. It's pretty much the same as my last monitor with the difference that it has Hdmi instead of DVI as well as the usual svga, Scart and others the sound output is 5.1 and there is a built in dvd player which will read mp3 and divX and a usb port too.
So basically i can use it with my tablet my netbook or other device that requires a reasonably high def screen.
My Desktop systems have largely gathered dust for the last 3 years, they are power hungry and not worth the cost of keeping powered up. My Nas has taken over the job of bulk storage a single 2tb drive is enough most of the time. There are other drives but its been a long time since they got powered up too. A single DVD burner using USB takes care of any disk needs, thou a usb stick tends to replace the pile of DVD's and CD's i used to burn once and use once.
The Tablet is getting more useful but there are short comings that are hard to address. It can't print directly to my nas which is also my print server it needs to use my netbook as a gateway to the android cloud printing service. Skype is awful on android it is difficult to be say using a web browser and skype at the same time. its much better integrated on Linux or windows or...
There is plenty of need for a pc in my life but not that much need for a desktop. I used to run myth-boxes but my satellite boxes record to hdd the files are transferable and transcodable and in sync. I can't series link but that only worked for me in the uk on digital terrestrial tv anyway and in ireland the Tv channels suck.
So now i am a low power (watts) computer user and it makes more sense that way.
There are only small niggles that need resolving like my multifunction printer scanner cant scan connected to my nas so i have to plug it in to my netbook. maybe i need to return to service my old EEE701 and use that instead of my nas.
The cheapest robot is the human being, and if you ever worked on a factory floor you would know that is usually true. A shift doing one simple action over and over again to the pace of a machine.
To give one simple example a flow wrap machine for a crisp/chip factory doing a multipack. The production process is already automated as much as possible. A bulk loader trailer (a lorry trailer with a conveyor in the bottom of it feeds potato's into a flume the PLC turns the conveyor on and off as required controlling the flow of potato's into the system. the flume takes the potato's to a 3 stage peeler which are abrasive rollers with progressively finer rolls. next the grader halver
which just passes through potato's of an appropriate size or cuts them down in size. the next stage is a number of spinning drums with razor blades which cut the chips/crisps followed by a bath to remove starch and into a fryer. On exiting the chips/crisps are run down a belt and made to jump onto a second one above this are camera's and a series of air jets the cameras are looking for burnt bits when they spot a burnt crisp the air jet blasts the burnt chip down between the 2 belts onto a cross belt and then feeds back to the first belt since the airjet will take some good chips of as well as the burn't ones so the waste is kept down. So far two people have jobs largely changing the blades on the chipper and monitoring the oven. producing about 7500kg of chips an hour.
the next stage is to flavour stations and packing which is fed by a series of vibrating conveyors (which are stainless steel troughs not belts). At a flavour station flavouring is added and a multi-head weigher collects the chips into bins and that calculates the weights needed to get your 25g bag eg two bins have 8g and 17g so these are opened together the packets are a sheet of plastic foil which is folded and seamed and crimped and cut. the top of one bag becomes the base of the next bag and when the chips are dropped the bag isn't made until part way through the fall.
The sealed packet then hits another conveyor which weighs the bags to check they are in specification and rejects the ones that are not (very few in practice) then either onto a rotating table where the human puts 48 in a box. or to the robot which unfolds the carton tapes it lines up 8 bags picks them up puts them in making 6 layers and seals it (if it only picks up 7 it rejects them which can be a big problem) and then the human stacks the cartons. That packing robot is an expensive piece of kit costing roughly 10 years worth of wages of a human packer, but can run 24/7 usually 24/5.
Back to multipacks a flow wrap machine has a sectioned belt so flavour A goes in 1 flavour B in 2 and flavour C in the third. the multipack is essentially a large packet with a simpler machine feeding it. it's old technology really (you can do a similar process to making the actual bags with a bigger multihead weigher) , but to feed that machine you have a bunch of operators who just put bags into the sections pick up drop pick up drop repeat for 8 hours 5 days a week pretty mind numbing soul destroying work but it's a job. You actually automate yourself to do it, more muscle memory than thought, pacing the machine. they do at least move stations every 15 minutes but you pretty much know how many laps you do before each break and per shift.
Thing is there are a lot of jobs like this just as soul destroying so the guy processing 5 images a second is his job any worse than this type of repetitive pick up and drop job?
The camera system on the crisp line essentially identifies black pixels and uses that to determine when product is burnt, a steam peeler (super heated steam blasts new potato's for about 30 seconds) uses a similar camera system to identify potato's with skin still attached. again its dark where it should be light. Systems maybe are better at recognising features these days but it always will be hard, maybe detecting a human detecting a feature is easier, does it have to be h
...and that's just the first guy
Is it necessary to price match exactly? Maybe if they could be say $30 dearer it would be worth the premium of being able to buy right now. There is a value in being able to buy now and also be able to bring something back if it develops a fault.
The bit-torrent client I use you can just type what you want and it searches and usually finds a selection of torrents related to the search terms.
Your probably right about the trailers point really was that torrents have a tarnished reputation and the use of bit-torrent is probably dismissed where it could be a viable option. I guess one use might be android updates one of my tablets gets frequent updated rom images and typically the server holding them gets hammered for a few days often failing to complete the download. With bit torrent the file availability scales with demand but there must be good reason why they prefer customers grumbling than make available via torrent.
Really if Bit-torrent has a reputation of use by people pirating content then legal users fear being tarred with the same brush.
Or how about a simple example say photoshop has a 200 MB patch it wants to distribute they could use bit torrent. However the user who wants the photoshop patch types in photoshop and finds photoshop with all bells and whistles available to download as well as the 200MB patch they were looking for. Any search on pirate bay for example will return legal torrents and illegal torrents as there is no difference as far as the search engine is concerned.
You might choose to distribute a film trailer by bit-torrent but instead of just links for the trailer links to the whole film are returned as well so while distributing the trailer by bit-torrent would be cheaper for the film company at the same time they would be making it easy to get the whole film too. This may eat in to sales or turn the film into a blockbuster depending on how good the film is, kind of an issue that people will not pay to see lousy films if they know they are lousy.
what happens when avg or similar puts it in the virus vault, guilty?
hmm same day that microsoft announced an android botnet no less. Guess it means if you want to be secure with your mobile phone you need to be using windows mobile 7... or 8 or something.
Or perhaps it's time to dump on the two main mobile o's in an effort to market windows phone.
The problem for publishers is if the old stuff is public domain and accessible, then it's going to hit sales of new stuff.
The real scary thing for publishers it only takes one out of copyright copy to make it to the public domain and it can be reproduced for ever.
unfortunately for the rest of us, realistically there isn't going to be much that we will want to view in our lifetime's but we should still try to protect the public domain for our descendants.
That was in the UK, Sheffield to be precise. It was the Policeman who I fetched (after spotting my guitar on the back wall and gave a very detailed description back in the station) who told me that while the 2nd hand shop couldn't sell my guitar to anyone since it had been stolen, he wasn't forced to give me it back yet. A judge could make him but I would have had to file and wait.
Basically he would be ordered to give it back eventually but in the meantime I would have had to wait he just wanted to get back the money he paid for the guitar or some of it anyway from me!
It would have been a civil case in the small claims as it was it didn't go forward as he was inspired to give the police a call when one of the two people who brought in the guitar came in with someone else and in the end all 3 were arrested and tried for a string of burglaries of which mine was just a taken into consideration. I did get a couple more things back recovered from the house where the three men were staying.
I had my suspicions who might have broke in to my house and they were totally unfounded. That was probably the best lesson learned for me, it was just random strangers.
That and if you get robbed of something hard to sell on, it is always worth checking out the local 2nd hand shops.
Actually been in a situation where a guitar of mine was stolen in a burglary. I spotted my guitar in a second hand shop and was able to prove it was mine.
But then hit a snag, the owner of the shop was able to say he bought the guitar in good faith, thus to get my guitar back i could compensate him by paying him for my own guitar or go to court and eventually get a judge to order him to return it to me. He wasn't allowed to sell it in the mean time so my stubbornness refusing to pay for my own guitar meant we both were out of pocket for a while.
In the end the same people who sold him the guitar tried to sell him something else at which time he called the police and they were arrested some stolen property was recovered and the shop keeper gave me my guitar back with the hope of getting some compensation from the court for catching the thieves.
I have to wonder if things would have played the way they did if I had caved and paid to get my guitar back.
Thank you, that was interesting to read about.
The end user cares when they have to do the same thing more than once repeatedly, only an idiot would want to be doing the work of the computer and GUI's more often than not will be making the user open and close files select from dialogues, confirm and all other manner of user interaction which isn't needed if you can just set up a little batch program to say process this like this.
It's a judgement call of course, figuring out how to get the computer to do what you want will take somebody's time. Maybe it's beyond the capabilities of the person doing the task and someone with some real skill is needed to actually formulate the quicker method.
In a work situation there should be someone who can write the script or the command needed so the office grunt can get the task done and do something more useful in the time saved. Admittedly you could be on dangerous ground giving an end user who can barely use the computer access to the command line but perhaps they should be better trained and educated or replaced by someone with the skill to do the job efficiently.
As a counter point don't force users to use a Gui when it's easier to do with a CLI.
GUI's tend to suck really badly at what I term donkey work basically any task where you are having to do the same task repeatedly usually across multiple files. Computers are great at donkey work but how often are you left wishing you could just set the task up and have it just do it!
Purely CLI methods can be tricky too, so sometimes it is helpful to use a GUI to setup parameters (if that GUI exists) really good GUI's which are just a front end to command line tools will even give you the command that it generated based on the options you chose enabling you to combine that combination into a simple script.
Even GUI programs can make use of the command line spitting out error messages while the GUI seems perfectly normal.
CLI or GUI or a bit of both there are strengths and weaknesses to these approaches to a task.
no matter how much you like GUI's there are any number of tasks which can be done in 5 minutes by CLI or 5 hours doing the same thing with a GUI right tool for the job in hand is always best
I get the impression Metformin is more of a block slowing up sugar uptake which reduces the amount of insulin needed to cope with the sugars and carbs.
I take a more interesting drug which stimulates a hormone which makes my body produce more insulin when it is needed. (byetta) I've been on a new version for the last few months which is a time release version (may still not be available in the USA yet) this is a once a week injection as opposed to twice a day and also doesn't cause any nausea. I think the nausea tends to be associated with rapid adjustment of blood sugar levels and spikes.
The weekly injection seems to control the blood sugar much closer to the ideal levels and also both forms help protect the insulin producing cells keeping them from dying off. Metformin doesn't stop this so a type 2 diabetic eventually becomes a type 1 as insulin is no longer produced naturally and insulin injections become necessary.
Insulin injections seem to be largely guess work trying to inject an appropriate amount of insulin and can be easy to get wrong, insulin injections also tend to be associated with weight gain probably since more sugar is usable by the body. I've not had any personal use of Insulin injections so I am just repeating hearsay.
With byetta and byduron, the main side effect seems to be belching and farting my conjecture is that since the drug causes a slowing of the digestive system gut bacteria get to work on your food producing gas as a side effect. To be honest this is a result of over eating and if your sensible with what you eat it doesn't happen. It kind of feels like the effect you get after drinking 2 litres of fizzy water. Your stomach balloons up and the slightest movement will cause you to belch Initially I had intense stomach pain a couple of days after starting the weekly injection. This was due to over eating. I soon adjusted my food intake and havent had another episode. Now I have good sugar levels and am losing weight steadily.
Ideally I would be better off 50 pounds lighter but I have made slow but steady progress just by eating less, I am rarely all that hungry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/health/bydureon-a-diabetes-drug-from-amylin-wins-fda-approval.html
just done a little googling and bydureon is fda approved since January that link sounds a little scary but so far I seem to be fine. An increased risk is only that an increased risk and is not a certainty.
I should have died 3 years ago but for the treatments that now exist to treat heart attacks so it is all bonus to me. I have pretty good health these days all things considered but would I be posting this today if I was an American?
Ireland doesn't have a population of hundreds of millions...
2011 total voting age 3,516,795 of a population of 4,670,976
registered 3,202,442 voted 2,243,176 turn out about 70% who were registered or 63% of voting age spoilt ballots 1%
Most area's elect 3 or 4 tds and the votes are carried out in rounds so who ever comes last in first preference votes gets their votes split according to 2nd preference and so on until there are just enough candidates left to fill the seats as a rough figure less than 13,000 votes are needed to be elected a TD with 176 TD's to be elected.
In theory most people will have voted a TD into office even if it wasn't their first choice. It has the advantage that two people with differing political views in the same area will have a representative that they supported to some extent elected.
Games maybe but movies on a phone, seriously?
Youtube clips are one thing but why would any one want to spend 90 minutes+ watching a movie on a tiny screen with a race between the film completing and the battery dying?
I guess you might use a phone as a replacement for the kids in car dvd player but you are seriously risking vomiting in the back seats. I loved to read as a kid but focusing on a paperback while travelling would make me queasy.
Games are a different matter as they fill "waiting time".
One thing which would be an improvement on current phones would be an e-ink or similar screen on phones as a secondary screen. Because none of the current screens are much good outside in sunlight. Maybe its time for the flip screen style phone to make a come back.
Seriously
A facebook email address says one thing about you , you use facebook. So when your boss see's it and sticks in a friend request how do you tactfully say never in a million years.
There has to be a good number of people that you don't really want accessing your facebook page for one reason or another at least you can deny being on facebook if your privacy settings are set secure enough.